Jihadis to Hillary: Please Pick Up The Phone!

"It's 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep, but there's a phone in the White House, and it's ringing. Your vote will decide who answers that call. Who do you want answering the phone?"

Hillary Clinton's ad claims she is the best one to answer that phone when the next crisis comes. Barack Obama's counterpunching ad claims he would be the better one to answer that phone since he opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. Of course, Republicans would claim that McCain would be the best man of all to answer the phone since he's the one who has been most severely tested under fire. However, nobody's asking the terrorists who they'd most like to be answering the phone when they make it ring. Turns out, terrorists hope Democrats answer the phone, especially Hillary.

Aaron Klein grew up as an Orthodox Jew in Philadelphia who found that jihadists in London were receptive to interviews with him, a student in Yeshiva University in New York City, and remarkably talkative. Intrigued by the experience, he became a journalist in Jerusalem, where he found Middle Eastern terrorists just as verbose and often bluntly honest about their goals. Klein wrote it all down in "Schmoozing With Terrorists: From Hollyood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans - to a Jew!"

Klein was surprised to find that Islamic terrorists in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank live in nicely appointed apartments with state of the art communications gear and they pay close attention to American politics. The terrorists are very much encouraged by the Democrats' talk of pulling out of Iraq. Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad, told Klein,

"As Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk. Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal."

Saadi laughed at Klein's question whether a unilateral withdrawal from Iraq would end worldwide terrorism:

"There is no chance that the resistance will stop."

Abu Ayman, an Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin, loves the American liberals who compare Iraq to Vietnam:

"[The mujahedeen fighters] brought the Americans to speak for the first time seriously and sincerely that Iraq is becoming a new Vietnam and that they should fix a schedule for their withdrawal from Iraq."

The terrorists are fully on board the Democrat defeatist program for Iraq. Abu Jihad, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization, was thrilled with the Democrat primary debate:

"We see Hillary [Clinton] and other candidates are competing on who will withdraw from Iraq and who is guilty of supporting the Iraqi invasion. This is a moment of glory for the revolutionary movements in the Arab world in general and for the Iraqi resistance movement specifically. I think Democrats will do good if they will withdraw as soon as they are in power."

That's not to say the terrorists don't dig Obama. They do. Ala Senakreh of the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade:

"I think Obama's success that I heard about in the media is an important success. He won popularity in spite of the Zionists and the conservatives, whom he greatly defeated. I think he can be a great leader but I don't think that the American regime will allow him to progress. They will try to get rid of him."

Jihad Jaara of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, leader of the 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, wholeheartedly endorses the Democrats:

"Of course Americans should vote Democrat."

Klein writes that terrorists generally love Democrats and hate Republicans:

"... I have talked countless times off-the-record to terrorists about U.S. politics. And one hundred percent of the time the terror leaders favored the Democrats over the Republicans. I never once came across a single terrorist who supported any Republican. And why would they? The Democrats largely want to withdraw from Iraq. They want dialogue with Syria and Iran. The terrorists share those same goals, because they believe it will lead to the downfall of the American empire and the spread of Islam. ... Overwhelmingly, the terrorists favored Hillary Clinton to win in 2008."

The terrorists had nothing good to say about Republican candidates for president. Ramadan Adassi, an Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades leader, hates Giuliani:

"If I had the occasion to meet him I would hurt him. For the sake of the American people Giuliani shouldn't be elected. He is a disgusting guy and I think Americans must think very hard about their future and their soldiers who will be killed when they come to elect their leaders."

Ali Senkreh doesn't think much of John McCain either, whom he considers a "stupid person":

"To you McCain I say this so-called war on terror you're promoting is causing only the loss of life of innocent people all around the world and the loss of your dog soldiers, and what is the result for you? Zero. Nothing."

And terrorists really hate President Bush, almost as much as the Loony Left here at home. Adassi calls Bush:

"...a psychopath, an arrogant person whose hands are full of blood of American soldiers in Iraq, American civilians killed on September 11, Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghani and other innocent children and women and innocent civilians. A stupid and insane person who will cause the loss even of America's allies in the Arab world."

The terrorists agree with Hillary and Obama. The next time they attack America, they very much prefer that the Democrats are in the White House to answer the hotline. They figure the Democrats favor them.

Yes We Can!

Hugh Hewitt featured Michelle Obama's scary stump speech at UCLA on his radio show. The whole thing is worth listening to for a peek into the Obama World View, but here's what comes at 8:41 in the audio on his site:

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

I thought I already was working but then I remember that Michelle is making her pitch to a liberal crowd, so warning that her hubby will make them work may be fair warning to Obama supporters who may not have jobs or maintain a casual relationship with labor.

I'm rather fond of my cynicism, which is a prerequisite for listening to the Obamas speechify. When the Obamas are filling up the auditorium with hot air, I like to dial my Cynicism Filter up to about 6, which is the intellectual equivalent of hip waders.

I'm pretty fond of my comfort zone, too, one which I worked all these years to create. I don't want Barrack or anybody else to move me out of it. Mmmm. Comfort zone. Moving everyone out of their comfort zone sounds like something Fidel says right before he demands everyone volunteer their weekends for mandatory work hoeing the fields to fulfill the goals of the Five Year Plan. The Declaration of Independence explicitly states that Americans have the right to pursue happiness. The Declaration of Obama's Wife says Americans should get out of their Happy Place.

The problem with Obama supporters is precisely that they are uninvolved with and uninformed about the real world, making the Obama rhetoric so appealing if you're a knucklehead. The rest of us know a snake oil salesman when we see one, pitching his potion as the remedy for everything.

In related news, Ben & Jerry made the completely unsurprising announcement that they endorse Obama for president. They're donating two "Obamamobiles" to tour Vermont, giving away free scoops of "Cherries for Change" ice cream. This leads us to the great question of the day: What is Obama's flavor?

It has to be some derivative of Neapolitan: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. I figure the chocolate is swirled on top with the vanilla while the pink strawberry is hidden under it at the bottom. It's about an inch down, where you can't see it until after you've bought it and dug in to discover that you've got nearly a whole pint of strawberry.

Hat tip to National Review Online.

Obama, The Lefty Messiah

"Is Barack Obama The Messiah?", a blog, captures the religious fervor with which lefty airheads are embracing Obama as the Solution To Everything. The trouble is, I'm not sure if it's a parody or another promotion for Obama. With Obamamania, the line between truth and comedy is getting very blurry.

For example, there is Cynthia Keze who tried to squeeze into the Key Arena in Seattle with thousands of others to see, just to see The Future. When she failed in that, she stood out in the rain, hoping to see Obama, to experience Obama, to just feel His Presence.

"The rest of us, we were in this huge crowd outside in the rain and he came out in the rain and talked to us. I was 10 feet away from him, 10 feet away. The only time I felt like that was when I saw Pope John Paul II."

Over and over, Cynthia repeated that she had only been ten feet, JUST TEN FEET, from Obama. Ten feet!

Seattleite Wendy Malabuyo, a 31-year-old engineer, couldn't name anything Obama had ever accomplished but, then, what did that matter?

"He inspires me. I can't even say. … He gives me so much hope. It makes me feel like something will actually change. So I'm speechless. I love him. I love everything he stands for. I love everything that he can bring to this country. And we just need to get him there."

John Cruce, 64, worked thirty years managing records at the State Department in Washington, D.C.. He couldn't think of anything Obama had accomplished either but that's hardly the point:

"Well, I think the biggest thing is he is like a key. He's going to unlock a door that's going to allow us now to pass and finally be able to do some things we would like to do. There are not going to be as many barriers as there have in the past."

Certainly, Obama Love obliterates all the barriers erected by rational thought. Obama need not explain his plans, if he has any, or lay out exactly how he's going to solve the pressing problems of the day. Obama needs only to Be and that's enough. Here's Barack Obama demagoguing away on Super Tuesday:

"We are the hope of the future; the answer to the cynics who tell us our house must stand divided; that we cannot come together; that we cannot remake this world as it should be. Because we know what we have seen and what we believe - that what began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest - Yes. We. Can."

Yes We Can do what, exactly? Obama is going to remake the world, The Entire World, into What It Should Be! And what exactly is that? Obama will let you know later, but trust Obama, it will be Good. How exactly will Obama do this remaking? With Obama Magic, that special voodoo only he can do!? Obama is awfully grandiose in his rhetoric, but he never quite gets into those picky little details.

I watch this Obamafying with amazement. It's like watching the best pickup artist in the world work a bar where they've just passed out free hits of Ecstasy.

It's gotten kinda creepy even for some Obama supporters, like Joel Stein of the LA Times. In his piece, "I've Got Obamaphilia," Stein writes that his mom gets Obama. She nails Obama as Peter Sellers in "Being There," an empty suit hailed as a visionary genius.